I agree that Zu should be the focus of the offense. Good things usually happen when the Clippers feed Zu. This will never happen as long as Harden and No Show are with the Clippers. Harden and Leonard will never allow Zu to be the hub. Their egos will never allow it, although it would enhance their games.

Don’t ever, ever, ever, allow Lopez to play in any games unless there are injuries. Just stop doing it.

Kris Dunn should never shoot another 4th quarter 3.

Kobe Sanders can play. Play Cam and Brown more. Play RayJ Dennis a little bit.

The Clippers need to get younger and quicker to stay relevant.

I read that CP3 was telling players not to follow Van Gundy’s defensive directions. WTF does he think he is? CP3 was signed to a minimum contract. He was an end of the bench fill in. He wasn’t a coach. The mistake was signing him. CP3 wasn’t a team player. He is an old guy who is coming to grips with the fact that he is no longer the young player who occupies his mind. He tried a power play move and got slapped down hard. That’s it.

I’m an old guy who has been with the Clippers from the time they arrived at the Sports Arena. I live in Florida and stay up late watching them. The CP3 thing doesn’t faze me in the slightest. To me, it’s no big deal. I love players as long as they can produce. If they can’t, I thank them for their service and wish them well.

The rebuild will happen due to expiring contracts. Players will come to the Clippers. They have the Intuit Dome, LA, and they will have the $$$$$. “Show me the $$$$.”

And there is always an owner who will overpay for a player if they believe a player is the difference between a championship and coming in 2nd.

I actually thought the team we had before the midseason trades was better built for the playoffs than the one we ended up with in the 2nd half of the season. I do think if we had kept Mann and KPJ and just picked up Ben Simmons we would’ve beaten Denver and gone 6 games with OKC. Actually, had we not made those trades, we would’ve been in the other bracket (away from OKC/Denver) and could’ve had a run like Minnesota to the conference finals. The transition period of getting Kawhi up to speed, plus Bogi integrated into the team plus Norm back from injury is where we lost ground and had to go on a big run at the end just to avoid the play in. If we don’t make those moves, we probably hold steady and get that #3 seed instead of the dreaded 4/5 bracket.

But in terms of fanhood, there’s a big difference between “fresh faced elementary/middle school kid looking for fun, local-ish team to root for, even if they’re bad” and “middle aged dude who lived through all that bad, learned what good actually felt like, only to see ownership/FO blindly stumble into bad again.”

Of course, given the FO’s past history (read: Blake Griffin), that doesn’t mean Lue won’t be fired regardless.

Well, no, that treatment is only reserved for people who actually give a shit about the franchise and are liked by fans. Meanwhile there’s a near-endless leash for Doc, Frank, Lue, Kawhi, etc.

I’m finding it increasingly difficult to see how Ballmer ever gets the message on how sick of this we are without us as fans simply walking away and refusing to waste any more money and time on this team. What else can we do when Ballmer has built a cult-like bubble of toxic positivity around the franchise that’s seemingly impervious to reality and runs off anyone (like CP3) with a different opinion?

We are where we are today because Frank couldn’t sell Kawhi on patience, couldn’t sell Jimmy or KD on signing here, and couldn’t even convince OKC to let him have some protections on those draft picks. It was utterly disastrous fear-based GMing at every turn.

If Frank does get his extension, part of the blame is on this fanbase’s years of excuses for why the PG trade shouldn’t count against him. “Every team would have done it!” No, a competent organization would have never allowed itself to be backed that far into the corner. It took a string of cascading failures by Frank, arguably beginning with the choice to draft Jerome over MPJ, to arrive at that trade, which would have cost him his job years ago at any serious franchise that cares about winning.